The ruling on preventing sacrificial animals from eating before slaughter
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Some butchers prevent sacrificial animals from eating for a day or two before slaughtering them so that the waste in their intestines decreases. What is the ruling on that? Yes.
Answer:
This is forbidden. This is torture, torture of the animal, so it is not permissible. Based on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)Sunan an-Nasa'i 4412Sahih (Darussalam) that if you slaughter, then slaughter well, and if you kill, then kill well. Torturing them with hunger and thirst for two days before slaughter is forbidden for him.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Some butchers prevent sacrificial animals from eating for a day or two before slaughtering them so that the waste in their intestines decreases. What is the ruling on that? Yes.
Answer:
This is forbidden. This is torture, torture of the animal, so it is not permissible. Based on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)
Allah has decreed proficiency in all things, so when
إن الله كتب الإحسان على كل شيء فإذا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/61 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:19:52)
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